According to Jarmo Paavilainen: While burning my CPU.
>
> Hi,
>
> I know that I need a IP forwarding kernel to be able to build a packet
> filtering firewall (and thats all I want to do).
>
> So the question is: Is the Kernel from redhat 5.2 enabled to forward
> packets?
I belive so yes, all standard distribution kernels have it set to yes.
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> And how can I tell if a kernel is compiled with the forward enabled?
cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
forwarding =y when "1" is returned.
Redhats init-scripts set ip_forwarding at bootime in /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
FORWARD_IPV4= place true here to forward, or false = no forward.
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> // Jarmo
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> PS. I tested to compile the kernel (dl the rpm package from redhats site), i
> think it was 2.0.36 (isnt it kind of old?), but It did not kompile. It ended
> with a make error. Someone solved this? DS.
>
I have no idea, if you want compile help on error messages then we will need
to see the error and warning messages which were produced by the compile.
Plus a description of the exacht commands used.
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Regards Richard.
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